#or prominently unnamed (ghost of a great name / the name magnus. lucan loves to get pompey to vanish into puns on his own name)
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had not previously considered this but. why is crassus(‘ unavenged ghost) the first named person in the pharsalia??????
#ignoring place names + quis furor o cives etc#i need to think about this more bcs like. umbra […] crassus inulta is SO adjacent to stat magni nominis umbra#which sadly is Not the first time pompey is named. it’s like the third. but all in the same chunk of text at least??#as in. it’s adjacent to stat magni nominis umbra in that there is a ghostly member of the triumvirate#(mimetic double decapitation bonus too)#either prominently named (crassus) + a ghost + not otherwise appearing in the poem#(yes crassus was dead when the civil war started so his appearance woukd be. unusual. but not unprecedented! julia’s ghost DOES appear!)#or prominently unnamed (ghost of a great name / the name magnus. lucan loves to get pompey to vanish into puns on his own name)#+ proleptically dead#+ arguably the Main Guy in the poem. i will not say the protagonist but like he is very much There And Important#anyway this post brought to you by me thinking huh i don’t think about crassus enough#thank you trikaranos 🫡#pharsalia#beeps
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